威廉·斯赫林克斯

1623 - 1678 Dutch

游历广泛的荷兰风景画家

威廉·谢林克斯（Willem Schellinks）是一位荷兰画家、素描家和蚀刻师，擅长风景画和海景画，同时也是一位诗人。威廉·谢林克斯是当时游历最广的荷兰艺术家之一。1646年，他沿卢瓦尔河和塞纳河旅行；1661年至1665年间，他访问了英国、法国、意大利、马耳他、德国和瑞士，并通过多幅风景画和景观图以及一本日记记录了他的旅程。其他拼写方式包括Schellinger和Schellinx。 Willem Schellinks was born into a family of artists in Amsterdam. He was the son of a surveyor and the brother of Daniël Schellinks (1627–1701), who was active as an amateur artist. Another brother, Jacob, settled in Southampton, Connecticut Colony and took up whaling. After finishing his studies with Karel Dujardin at the age of about twenty, he traveled to France with Lambert Doomer in 1646. After that he undertook another journey in 1661–1665 as the guide of a certain Mr 'Jakob Thierry de Jong', a young gentleman on his Grand Tour. Schellinks compiled his drawings and notes about this last journey in three volumes, that remained unpublished, but which he kept for friends to read. The painter-engraver Arnoud van Halen acquired these volumes and the Dutch artist biographer Arnold Houbraken was granted permission to read through them himself. This trip, which he began on 14 July 1661, included visits to England, France, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Germany and Switzerland. He describes the main sights of the cities he visits. His route home from Italy took him "from Venice to Padua, over Verona, Mantua, Trento, and Munich. In Munich he visited all of the rooms of the newly built Palace of the Bavarian Counts, and he described all of the paintings and statues he saw there. He then continued on to Augsburg, Regensburg, Nuremberg, Hanau, Frankfurt, Worms, Frankenthal, Heidelberg, Speyer, Strasbourg, Breisach, Basel, Zürich, Baden, Bern, Mainz, Cologne, Mülheim, Düsseldorf, Cleves, Nijmegen and Utrecht, where he arrived 23 August 1665." 舍林克斯的手写日记写于他1661–1665年旅行后的几年，基于他现已遗失的笔记，现藏于哥本哈根皇家图书馆。由舍林克斯本人制作的抄本现藏于博德利图书馆。日记中涵盖他在英格兰旅行的部分已以英文出版。该日记是17世纪旅行状况的重要记录。虽然舍林克斯并未提供太多关于其艺术观点或风景画方法的见解，但他对罗马宫殿艺术收藏的描述填补了当时荷兰旅行文学的空白。舍林克斯可能受荷兰政府委托，在其国外旅行期间绘制素描，因为他的许多画作包含了可能引起政府情报部门关注的战略要点。其中一些作品也被用于编纂著名的《布劳-范德赫姆地图集》，该地图集于1649年至1673年间在阿姆斯特丹出版。